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Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the six Apollo missions that landed on the moon, describing the work performed there, what it is like to walk on the moon, and the collection of moon rocks.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scientists expose bizarre, mysterious and exotic things in our universe, casting their vote for the weirdest planets, stars, galaxies, moon, clouds, subatomic particles, black holes and invisible phenomenon. Travel to Low Earth Orbit, the 1,100-mile band around the Earth, where for $20 million any private citizen can take the vacation on the International Space Station. Examine cosmic events. From the beauty of the Aurora Borealis and rainbows to...
84) Bone silence
Author
Series
Revenger novels volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
625 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the twenty thousand worlds of the Congregation. They've plundered treasures untold, taken command of their own ship, and made plenty of enemies. But now they're being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. To stay one step ahead of their pursuers and answer the questions that have plagued them, they'll have to employ every dirty,...
85) Moon landings
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the Apollo spacecraft missions to the Moon, detailing each mission's voyage, the astronauts of the Apollo program, and what it takes to be an astronaut.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson presents his views on the future of space travel and America's role in that future, giving his readers an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for America's economy, security, and morale.
87) Vessel: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After astronaut Catherine Wells's ship undergoes a catastrophic event and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her to be dead. Miraculously - and mysteriously - she survives, though everyone else on the mission is lost, as are most of Catherine's memories of her time in space. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman, and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager...
89) Ad astra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (219 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mysterious flying objects, unexplained disappearances, species invasions: a swirl of suspicion has circled our planet for decades, but few definitive answers have been offered. This collection combs through three and a half hours of evidence, interviews, and theories that attempt to explain the unexplained. From astronauts to abductees, a variety of sources submit film footage and firsthand testimonies to be examined in search for the truth.
92) Space dogs
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Laika, a stray dog picked up by the Soviet space program on the streets of Moscow, became the first living being to orbit the earth when she was launched into space on Sputnik 2. Although Laika would not survive the journey, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter trace the persistence of her memory and legacy into the present day. As the capsule containing Laika re-entered Earth's orbit and began to burn up, the narrator announces "What had been a...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xxii, 247 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space is the thoroughly engrossing, extensively researched story of his inspiring life and groundbreaking...
94) Delta-V
Author
Series
Delta-V volume 1
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Captain Pausert just can't catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire-and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres-but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course),...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success -- and survival -- is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst...
98) Salvation
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind...
99) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
589 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although astronauts routinely perform science experiments on spacecraft, we rarely have seen just how catastrophic they can be-until now. When a particle accelerator goes awry, suddenly the entire crew of a spacecraft must fight to stay alive. Relying upon all of their considerable skills and talents, they will need to improvise in ways they have never even imagined before. With each passing second making their prospects of a potential escape more...
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